Company Info
Olam International is a leading food and agri-business supplying food, ingredients, feed and fibre to over 19,800 customers worldwide. Our value chain spans over 60 countries and includes farming, processing and distribution operations, as well as a sourcing network of 4.8 million farmers. Through our purpose to ‘Re-imagine Global Agriculture and Food Systems’, Olam aims to address the many challenges involved in meeting the needs of a growing global population, while achieving positive impact for farming communities, our planet and all our stakeholders. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, Olam currently ranks among the top 30 largest primary listed companies in terms of market capitalisation on SGX-ST.
1). Packaging Development Technologist
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Description
- The candidate should be a Packaging professional with functional/technical knowledge on Packaging material and development process.
- Candidate would be part of Packaged food Business and lead Packaging function from concept to Launch.
Key Deliverables
- This role leads and coaches the team and is accountable for all packaging development and implementation.
- Provides functional expertise and value leadership
- Responsible for the exploration and integration of new packaging capabilities in supply network
- Provides direction and framework for new product/packaging innovation pipeline
- Develops innovative packaging design, develop, implement solutions to support Innovation pipeline and project portfolio plans in response to business briefs
- Prioritizes and deploys resources (people and money) to optimize the delivery of the project portfolio.
- Ensures proper documentation and knowledge management within the project portfolio
- Establishes Standards of Excellence for the team and Best in Class benchmarks to clarify design objectives
- Well-versed with packaging material testing and standards
- Be involved in the appropriate phases of the NPD process to ensure the correct management of the packaging process as the product moves from Concept to Launch.
- Provision of all information in order for concept team to finalize product costings.
- Direct, participate in and drive packaging trials on production lines.
- Liaise with the Process team on post-trial tasks, e.g. heat instructions, organoleptics, etc.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree / HND in any discipline from a reputable Institution
- Work experience of around 10 years in FMCG, Pharma, and Convertor.
- Hands on work experience in Research & Development of Printing & Packaging
- Practical experience & knowledge with a range of packaging materials
- Design Software like AUTOCAD, RHINO
- Problem-solving skills
- Good attention to detail
- Strong Technical & Innovation Skills
- Good teamworking abilities
- Handling multiple projects at a time.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Aquaculture Development Project Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Function: OGA
Sub-Function: OGA
Job Description
- Leading a project team, the incumbent will be expected to support the planning, implementation and monitoring and also review of aquaculture research and development initiatives in IFP Business.
Key Deliverables
- Serve as a facilitator and supporter of coordination and communications about aquaculture and fisheries development projects in Nigeria, liaising with local partners, government agencies and other national institutions.
- Provide senior administrative support to project implementation, including preparation and monitoring of partner agreements, work plans, and budgets.
- Provide substantial technical and logistical guidance to field-based development and research activities on aquaculture and integrated systems of fish farming.
Requirements
- Minimum University Degree in Associated Fisheries / Aquaculture related studies
- Candidates should possess a minimum of 5 years of Aquaculture Project Management experience
- Relevant professional qualifications are an added advantage
- Experience of developing “green field” projects with high level of industry/sector experience
- Excellent knowledge of the local aquaculture sector, with good links within the industry
- Good technical understanding of aquaculture practices including scientific base knowledge; relating practical operational solutions to maximize production efficiencies
- Good knowledge of delivery of quality to markets as related to the handling and processing of fish and shrimp products ensuring product demand in major markets
- Good organizational skills, analytical approach, including ability to deliver technical and financial forecast, strong reporting capability
- Strong previous track record in developing strategic ideas into viable project deliverables
- Strong decision-making based on relevant data which may be scientifically based
- Results oriented, good capacity to learn and to develop himself and others
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Associate – Finance FLP
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Function: Finance
Sub-Function: Finance – Common
Job Description
- The Future Leaders program offers a customized development journey structured to explore your potential within your business/functional stream. It immerses you into the operations from day one ensuring your learning experience is relevant, practical, and hands-on working with experts on the field.
- The successful candidate will join the global future leader’s management program of Olam, which will provide structured learning in various modules within Business Management, Supply chain, Operational roles in different countries globally. After successfully completing the program, the candidate will be part of a Global Talent Pool and assigned as a Fiannce Manager position for their country of origin or where the company has operations across Africa.
Key Deliverables
There are two distinct phases:
- Phase I Corporate Onboarding: A learning zone – formal exposure to all aspects of the business to accelerate your knowledge on the Olam way of doing business, who we are, what we do, and how we operate
- Phase II Field Rotations & Business Unit Rotations: Hands-on exposures across business models/geographies, mentored by a senior leader, designed to fast track your knowledge of the business/function. You will be placed in your potential role, with clear responsibilities to deliver. You will be closely mentored by a senior leader and supported by an HR Partner during this phase
Requirements
- Professional Degree: CA, ACCA, CIMA ,CPA or equivalent Financial / Accounting Degree.
- Finance Roles: Cohesive exposure in managing finance function, handling large scale complex operations for business in different countries and regions. The individual would be act as Finance business partner and manage financial reporting, treasury, budgeting, risk management. In the role you would manager demonstrate conceptual ability to ideate and implement robust systems & processes suited to business/ country. You also display accuracy and efficiency in MIS reporting, budgeting.
- Alignment with our culture. Do you have the entrepreneurial spirit, willingness to stretch, take risks, and an appetite to learn in new environments? This is a must!
- Mobility is important. A career in Olam is strengthened with multi-location experience including emerging economies.
- Working in Olam isn’t a 9-5 job! We are globally connected, operating across geographical boundaries and time zones.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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4). General Manager, Quality & Nutrition
Location: Ilorin, Kwara
Job Type: Full-time
Job Description
- The Quality & Nutrition Manager is ensuring compliance to quality norms, policies and procedures of the company with the objective of achieving a quality culture to achieve consistent quality with zero defect in collaboration with all stakeholders by constantly developing, planning and implementing quality systems & processes and training of plant personnel.
Key Deliverables
- Develop, plan and implement quality systems to meet Food Safety standards in line with GFSI guidelines.
- Ensure food safety requirements including PRPs, audit processes (factory, market, warehouse, etc.), conducting root cause analysis, implementing corrective action plan, review compliance status for all the quality related observations and lead the process of sharing observations with all stakeholders for implementation/closure.
- Closely interact with other functions including R&D, Manufacturing, Sourcing, etc., and seek their inputs on improvement/ development of Quality Systems and Processes. Setup, maintain and operate lab to meet all requirements of testing of incoming, in-process and finished goods consistently.
- Has a strong knowledge about the nutritional properties and quality specifications of different raw materials and feed additives used in the feed industry.
- Knowledgeable about the quality control system used in the animal feed industry (NIR, wet chemistry proximate analysis, process control, and in-market quality).
- Liaising among different departments, e.g. suppliers, managers working with Plant Head to implement the company’s policies and goals seek to challenge their costs and performance to ensure cheap yet quality service.
Requirements
- Having a Master’s Degree in Animal or Nutritional Sciences with around 10-15 years of experience in food industry,
- Good communication skills, strong analytical and problem solving skills, assertiveness, negotiating capability. Thorough Knowledge of Food Safety systems, GMP, GLP, Auditing, Compliance, Training, Food testing (including sensory), basic regulatory knowledge
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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5). Agronomist
Location: Ilorin, Kwara
Job Type: Full-time
Overview of Position
- With IFP’s foray into Soy crushing and increasing requirement of crop, it is imperative to find pathways to grow Soybean production in the surrounding areas of the facility with objective to source a large part of the Soybean requirement for crushing from the catchment area (Kwara & Niger states).
- The position of Agri-Extension PM would be thus responsible to develop programs for small-holder farmers to get into SB production and drive improvement in agronomic practices to increase yield & farmer profitability, enabling crop growth.
- The position will also focus on developing & operating out-grower programs to secure supply of crop required by the business. To achieve this objective, the person is expected to secure donor funding for the agri-extension work from NGOs, global developmental agencies and Nigeria’s domestic schemes.
Key Responsibilities
- Mobilize farmer groups to get into & increase Soybean production.
- Develop a package of best agronomic practices for Soybean cropping and advise/ train the growers to adopt the same to ensure increased yield & productivity.
- Conducting detailed cost of production studies and find avenues for increasing farmer profitability
- Monitoring of weather & other developments to update production estimates and assess the impact of various scenarios on yields.
- Input distribution and credit accounting, if needed
- Build and sustain a reliable Soybean out-grower base in the catchment areas (Kwara & Niger) and ensure a sustainable supply of high-quality produce for IFP’s Soy crush facility.
- Quality seed production throughout-growers for the participating farmers
- Build an operational team to run the farming out-grower program – Scheduling operations as well as resources and monitor the activities in the field to achieve production and buyback targets.
- Acquire funding for the Soybean Agri-extension through multi-lateral agencies and stake holder management (International donor organizations/ Developmental agencies, social/ community organizations, Nigerian governmental agencies & Statutory bodies and internal departments)
Key Performance Indicators
- Improved productivity and increased production volumes for farmers
- Management of out-grower program and volume of buyback from the farmers
- Donor funding from Global developmental agencies/ NGOs and through domestic schemes in Nigeria to sponsor farmer programs
Academic Qualification
- Master’s Degree in Agriculture
Work Experience and Competencies Required:
- Must have expertise in Soybean cropping and 7 – 10 years of experience in managing farmer / out-grower / contract farming and agricultural extension services
- Proven experience in obtaining donor funding from NGOs and multi-lateral agencies
- Understanding of seed production, crop management and buyback of produce
- Knowledge on agro-climate, soil fertility, disease & pest control
Skills Required:
- Competence in managing external stakeholders and interactions with multi-lateral agencies
- High level execution capabilities, decision-making and critical thinking skills
- Resourcefulness to work with limited resources and capability to build/ manage a team from ground-up.
- Willingness to work in adverse field condition and manage the program in remote locations
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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6). General Manager – Learning & Talent
Location: Lagos
Role Overview
- The Learning & Talent Manager to Plan and develop L&D strategies to build the leadership and business capabilities in the country.
- In this role, you should be passionate about helping people learn and grow. Excellent communication and facilitation skills are essential.
- This is a COE role and has dual reporting to the Global Head of Learning & Organization effectiveness and the Regional Head of HR.
- Working in a matrix to roll out global Learning, talent, culture initiatives and mobilizing the regional and country requirements is ideal.
Requirements
- Proven HR specialist in Learning and talent experience with demonstrated track record and having worked in matrix set up of COE and region/country.
- End-to-end diagnostics, design, program management, facilitation of behavioral/managerial/leadership capability tracks
- Champion Olam signature programs and processes such as Aspire, on-line talent management and on-line learning & development platform iQuest
- Facilitate and deliver the company’s management development & leadership development program to senior level leaders.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of current programs on its impact to capability development.
- Proficient in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and its adoption
- Experience in certifications for the company e.g., Top employers/ Great Places to work/any other in the area of Learning and Organization effectiveness.
- Work on special projects (such as Reward and Recognition, Org reorganization projects, developing EVP etc.) on a need basis.
- Consultancy background in independently managing solutions is a plus.
- There is an additional responsibility for this role holder to manage the EXPAT admin and oversea HCM Master data in the country.
- Proactive, self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives for a timely and successful conclusion. Including some global initiatives together with local delivery.
Key Attributes and Characteristics
- University Degree with 8 – 10 years of experience
- Identify and partner with training providers/vendors best in the industry to implement training & Organization effectiveness programs and initiatives!
- Ability to solve problems through understanding of business priorities being able to link them to the design of the learning and talent initiatives.
- Influencing – Ability to work with a diverse team across zones and drive change through processes, capability building and communication.
- Able to work with multiple data inputs collectively and create point of view supported by facts in order to influence stakeholders in matrix set-up.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills; sharp business acumen
- Current knowledge of effective learning and development methods
- Provide functional area of expertise to HR Business Partners.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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7). Maintenance Engineer
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Function: MATS
Sub-Function: MATS-Common
Job Description
Key Performance Matrices include:
- Optimize utilization of processing and quality resources in the country to derive maximum capacity utilization and efficiencies and to eliminate controllable losses and minimize the impact of non-controllable losses
- Manage external contractors in a cost effective manner – seek to challenge their costs and performance to ensure cost effective yet quality service.
- Through managers, maintain and administer all personnel records and systems relating to employees (excluding records of sickness, absenteeism and holidays, recorded in the General Office).
- Maintain and monitor processes in respect of breakdown and performance. (Running hours; kW/t; capacity per hour against set targets. (KPI) React to variances.
- Ensure hygiene standards in all areas are maintained to the highest standards at a minimum above those required by BRC.
- Through respective managers, ensure the safe keeping of all company agreements, financial instruments, etc.
- Ensure the Health and Safety of all subordinates within Company guidelines and current legislation.
- Ensure all functional management are aware of the correct codes of practice, both statutory and advisory, that govern accepted standards of safe operation at all premises. Ensure production plant causes the minimum of dust and noise both internally and externally.
- By regular site inspection and training, ensure full employee awareness of safe working practices and their role in maintaining the required standards. (ongoing exercise).
Requirements
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, QEHS, HACCP related certification Job related courses and training
- 8 + years’ experience of handling maintenance, utilities and projects in several jobs as Mechanical/Electrical engineer and project related management. Preferably flour milling, pasta processing or any other food processing industry.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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8). Associate – Future Leaders Program
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
About the job
- The Future Leaders program offers a customized development journey structured to explore your potential within your business/functional stream.
- It immerses you into the operations from day one ensuring your learning experience is relevant, practical, and hands-on working with experts on the field.
- The successful candidate will join the global future leader’s management program of Olam, which will provide structured learning in various modules within Business Management, Supply chain, Operational roles in different countries globally.
- After successfully completing the program, the candidate will be part of a Global Talent Pool and assigned as a Branch Manager position for their country of origin or where the company has operations across Africa.
There are two distinct phases:
- Phase I Corporate Onboarding: A learning zone – formal exposure to all aspects of the business to accelerate your knowledge on the Olam way of doing business, who we are, what we do, and how we operate
- Phase II Field Rotations & Business Unit Rotations: Hands-on exposures across business models/geographies, mentored by a senior leader, designed to fast track your knowledge of the business/function. You will be placed in your potential role, with clear responsibilities to deliver. You will be closely mentored by a senior leader and supported by an HR Partner during this phase
Responsibilities
As a Branch Manager, your responsibilities would include but are not limited to.
- Design, implement and manage the Strategy for the product in the country with the respective teams below him to drive and deliver volumes as per the overall business plan.
- Optimize utilization of processing and quality resources in the country to derive maximum capacity utilization and efficiencies and to eliminate controllable losses and minimize the impact of non-controllable losses
- Support in implementation of the required infrastructure to deliver volumes as per the business plan
- Manage and support Credit Exposure, Pricing Strategies, Forwards / Future/ Hedging, and working capital management
- Ensure high motivational levels in the team and get the team aligned with the overall product strategy that we follow in the country
- Support the business head in trading and positional decisions by providing adequate and timely market information
- Interface with appropriate regulatory bodies for obtaining permissions, approvals, etc.
- Capability building amongst local staff.
Requirements
- Credentials and experience are important at Olam. We seek post-graduate qualifications from Leading schools globally with 2 – 3 years of experience in Business Management, supply chain & operations.
Benefits
We’re committed to getting this right:
- Alignment with our culture. Do you have the entrepreneurial spirit, willingness to stretch, take risks, and an appetite to learn in new environments? This is a must!
- Mobility is important. A career in Olam is strengthened with multi-location experience including emerging economies.
- Working in Olam isn’t a 9 – 5 job! We are globally connected, operating across geographical boundaries and time zones.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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9). Plant Head, Rice
Location: Nasarawa
Function: MATS
Sub-Function: Plant Operations
Job Description
- The role encompasses the day to day management of all the plants in the country, handling all function from production, processing, quality, engineering & projects and QEHS.
- You will be directly responsible for quality production with class-leading production efficiencies. The incumbent will be a people leader who can multitask and manage efficiency, quality, speed and safety at the plants.
Key Deliverables
Strategic Effectiveness:
- Manage overall plant operations covering production, production planning, demand forecast, manpower planning and mobilization in a comprehensive manner.
- Review shop floor operations daily for adherence to quality systems & norms. Build systems to capture any deviation from set standards.
- Lead and support in process/system related issues, reduce incidences of such issues.
- Manage and support preventive maintenance for plant & machinery and related engineering initiatives.
- Optimize production costs, consolidate variances, analyse and find root causes for variances. Define action plans to manage/reduce such variances.
- Manage line OEEs, wastages and conversion costs through effective monitoring, review & control.
- Lead the QEHS initiatives and work with the central quality head in delivering defined goals.
- To be a champion for the commissioning of sustainable systems to hold the gains.
- Keep a tight control on maintenance & repairs cost within the budgeted levels.
Operational Effectiveness:
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensure delivery of projects within the scope, cost & time.
- Be a quality champion and lead cost efficiency and continual improvement programs.
- Identify opportunities, baseline and execute projects amongst cross-functional teams.
- Actively participate in & lead IR discussions, become a voice for the team.
- Negotiate with various unions, ensure industrial discipline is maintained, and labour productivity is increased regularly.
- Chalk out budgets for Labour, energy, materials, maintenance & other plant overheads effectively and implement.
Organizational Effectiveness:
- Train and guide the team to build efficiency and quality focus.
- Manage and build a multi-generational diverse workforce.
Requirements
- An Engineering graduate with 20+ years of work experience with a leading FMCG organization.
- Ability to build strategic partnerships and build relationships internally and externally.
- Seen as a champion of the business goals and employee development.
- An understanding of how, and the willingness to go the extra mile, to bring added business value.
- Collaborate across the organization to maximize outcomes.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: